2026-05-02 13:31 UTC
@nolan@toot.cafe The thing I keep thinking about is that it's that much of a slog, and they're still trying to harmonize it with the rest of the platform, was it actually a good design in the first place? I worry about all the opportunity cost here, like could we have gotten features like JS Temporal or CSS if statements many years ago instead of only now. Maybe we could have upload and download progress events for `fetch` so that I don't constantly need to fall back to XMLHttpRequest.
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@peterreeves@mstdn.social 2026-05-02 13:38
@nolan@toot.cafe The web is fantastic when it creates elegant new connections between different systems, sands down sharp corners on existing APIs, or enables completely new control of something I couldn't do before (e.g. Web XR). Adding high level "user space" stuff just feels like so much misplaced effort in my opinion.